Comments by "Gabe" (@gabetalks9275) on "AFP News Agency" channel.

What Paris is doing is nothing new for the Olympics. Historically, most Olympic host cities keep most of their venues. Athens and Rio are outliers. It's not building and spending money that's the problem. It's how cities are building and spending that money that's the problem. London is constantly hailed as one of the gold standards for how to host an Olympics despite building way more than Paris is, and still being the 2nd most expensive Olympics of all-time 12 years later at $14.9B. More than double what both Rio and Athens spent combined. Because London built and spent wisely, and actually had a post-Games plan, making the Games actually worth the cost. And they aren't alone either. Barcelona and Sydney, two other cities also hailed as model Olympic cities despite both spend more money than both Rio and Athens as well.
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